Session Abstract: Definitions of community-based public art are not homogenous. Community-based public art may be defined as a project or network of activities that forge relationships among the participants and an immediate public; it may also be conceived as a program that fosters the creation of collaborative networks, such that new relationships are created through the artistic process, as a by-product of the aesthetic intervention, or as part of the work’s reception. How does the process of creation, perception, and reception reveal the complexities of the formation of a community? Collaborative and participatory programs such as billboards, mural projects, large-scale sculpture, and site-specific urban planning projects, parks, and other types of community-created or community-oriented projects and paradigms are within our purview. We aim to investigate art that is created by a community, invokes a community, or produces a pseudo-community through a range of artistic practices. Papers that seek to define or reconstitute community are invited from artists, art historians, curators, critics, and others.